• @LazerDickMcCheese
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    25 days ago

    Install windows software: download the exe or msi and click OK 2 or 3 times

    Install Linux software: you got at least 40hrs to learn terminal commands to install dependencies n shit? I fucking don’t, that’s not what user-friendly looks like to 90% of the planet

    • @[email protected]
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      625 days ago

      Pretty much everything is available in a package manager, flatpaks, etc.

      If you’re at the point of building from source, I don’t think you’re in regular user territory to start with.

    • Jack Riddle
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      525 days ago

      It’s clear you haven’t used linux.

      Windows: open edge, go to google, type the package you want, scroll past ads, download random executable from internet, execute, click through wizard, open program.

      Linux: open package manager, search package you want, click install, open program.

      • @LazerDickMcCheese
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        025 days ago

        I have, quite a bit: Ubuntu, Red Hat, Mint, Debian. Not everything is in your precious package manager

        • DebatableRaccoon
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          424 days ago

          You’ll never convince the zealots who believe sun shines out of Torvalds’ asshole.

          • @LazerDickMcCheese
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            324 days ago

            Their lack of self-awareness makes me laugh, that’s all it is

      • Fonzie!
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        -124 days ago

        And once you’ve done it once, you can install it again on another machine by just using

        Linux: $PACKAGE_MANAGER install $PACKAGE, open program.

        Windows: open edge, go to google, type the package you want, scroll past ads, download random executable from internet, execute, click through wizard, open program.

    • @[email protected]
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      -123 days ago

      commands to install dependencies n shit

      That only happens if you are fixated on installing the software without connecting to the internet.
      Otherwise, the package manager does it for you (that’s what its job is)